Article: Early Modern Period: Art Historical Interpretations

EARLY MODERN PERIOD: ART HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS

EARLY MODERN PERIOD: ART HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS. The practice of critical evaluation in early modern art rests upon the foundations of biography, rhetoric, and poetics. Giorgio Vasari (1511 1574), Italian writer and artist, launched Renaissance art history with his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (first edition, 1550), a compendium of biographical sketches. The language of rhetoric and poetics established the terms for writing about literature and the visual arts with the appearance of Cicero's De oratore (On speaking), the first book published in Italy, and Aristotle's Poetics, translated into ...

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